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title: Den eh wife tun um loose, an Buh Wolf gone fuh git meat. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Den eh wife tun um loose, an Buh Wolf gone fuh git meat. Who acts: Buh. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 12, sentence 88

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Den eh wife tun um loose, an Buh Wolf gone fuh git meat.

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**Who acts:** Buh · **What happens:** meat · **To what, where:** wife tun um

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Buh), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:12:88
# text = Den eh wife tun um loose, an Buh Wolf gone fuh git meat.
1	Den	Den	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	eh	eh	PROPN	ADD	_	1	list	_	_
3	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
4	tun	tun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	loose	loose	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
9	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
10	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	git	git	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meat** |  | Buh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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